I didn't know that cornholing was even legal in the South, but now I find that there's even an official organization dedicated to it. I give you, the American Cornhole Association: http://www.playcornhole.org/index.phpRead more... )

Of all people, Jim Cramer has a very inightful comment on the economic meltdown ( Read more... )

With all the anti-abortion carrying on and posturing about president Obama's commencement address at Notre Dame, why has no one pointed out the flagrant hypocrisy that the university has had commencement addresses delivered by previous presidents (aka Dubya) who supported the death penalty, even though the catholic church also opposes the death ( Read more... )

Here's footage of a festival in Nuanquan, China where farmers fling molten iron against a wall ( Read more... )

Check out the video with the article ( Read more... )

"I always lived very frugally. I flew around on a private jet. I had a boat. But I always lived very frugally."http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/04/in_interview_stanford_plays_worlds_smallest_violin.php

It's a sad state of affairs when Calvin & Hobbes have the most trenchant analysis of todays financial meltdown:


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If you haven't seen this site yet, be prepared to waste a lot of time ( Read more... )

It's hard to feel hopeful about the future of the US when I look at this set of lovely, depressing pictures of abandoned public schools in Detroit:

http://www.viceland.com/int/v16n2/htdocs/schools-out-forever-625.php?country=

Did you know that Greta Van Susteren, the surgically modified yet still oddly mannish host of Fox's "On the Record" is a Scientologist? I wonder how all the fundamentalist loons who watch Fox News would feel about that if they knew? http://www.sptimes.